- 2026-10-08Thomas Douglas (1771-1820), 5th Earl of Selkirk, under whose inspired leadership and support colonists were recruited in Scotland and Ireland…
- 2026-10-08Manitoba's most-decorated Aboriginal war veteran, Sergeant Tommy Prince of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, was born at Petersfield on October 25,…
- 2026-10-08Politician, merchant, land speculator, farmer, founder of Crystal City, Greenway was born in England in 1838 and was raised and…
- 2026-10-08Born in Leeds, England, T.H.P. Lamb emigrated to western Canada in 1891. He worked on a railway construction gang and…
- 2026-10-08In 1881 Thomas Mayne Daly arrived in Manitoba from his native town of Stratford, Ontario, and began his distinguished legal…
- 2026-10-08After ten years of extensive aerial surveys, the International Nickel Company (INCO) announced in 1956 the discovery of a large,…
- 2026-10-08The Morris River, known as the Scratching River in 1801 was the site of North West Co., and XY Co.,…
- 2026-10-08Manitoba’s only commercial coal operations were developed following discovery of lignite near the Turtle Mountain in 1879. Production began in…
- 2026-10-08Construction of this church began in 1930. The exterior painting and elaborate interior decoration, mainly by local amateur artists, began…
- 2026-10-08Constructed in 1918-19, this is the first and largest Ukrainian Labour Temple in Canada, built primarily by volunteer labour and…